Omega Five is a horizontal shooter for the Xbox Live Arcade, featuring an unlockable retro mode, during which both the graphics and sound are stylized to imitate 16-bit hardware.  The soundtrack represents a new take on the sidescrolling shooter by…

The music of Square Enix composer Yoko Shimomura has been featured on several arranged albums over the years.  Parasite Eve was treated to trance and techno remixes, songs from Kingdom Hearts were performed by the Eminence Symphony Orchestra, and Live…

kt2 composes music for Tama-Soft, a developer of Japanese text-based PC games.  In 2001, his original soundtrack to the title No Reality was released, followed by the image album For you… from here the edge in 2002, and game soundtracks…

Hiroki Kikuta’s latest album is the first by the composer for a game published by Square since the sequel to Secret of Mana Soukaigi was denied an English-language release.  Concerto: The Extraordinary World of Concerto Gate features tracks by the…

When game composers Hitoshi Sakimoto and Motoi Sakuraba consolidated their artistic assets, merging into a single unified organism, no one could have predicted the startling results. Ambrosia Odyssey Composed by Motoshi Sakriboto Square Enix      

Team Entertainment's belated release of Rockman 7 OST remains faithful to the traditional series, but the soundtrack is hampered by some unfortunate technical issues. Rockman 7 Composed by Capcom Sound Team Team Entertainment    

As has perhaps drawn online remixers and doujins to endlessly revisit the early Rockman tunes, the stage music of the original trilogy often managed to illustrate a game stage in a musical idea as effectively as the molten pools of…

An introduction to the 20th Anniversary techno remix album by Shinji Hosoe of classic tunes from the first six Mega Man games.   20th Anniversary Rockman 1~6 Techno Arrange arranged by Shinji Hosoe Team Entertainment       More info…

With the distribution of such albums as the original soundtrack to Folklore and the Motoi Sakuraba piano album Forest of Glass, Team Entertainment has been asserting a more noticeable position in the videogame music milieu as of late. Joining in the…

The composer of Secret of Mana and Koudelka has a new album scheduled to go on sale at the end of February.  Hiroki Kikuta's fifteen-track Concerto will be available on his privately owned label Norstrilia.  Including songs from Concerto Gate,…

Tokyo native Takayuki Nakamura is a self-described music lover and technophile.  As early as junior high he was experimenting in radio through a school program, started a band, and began broadcasting his own songs.  He developed an affinity toward electronic…

The latest album by the music director of the LUMINES puzzle action titles, a challenging and unconventional game soundtrack.   L.II remixes composed by Takayuki Nakamura Brainstorm Co. Ltd.       More info on Sound Current: L.II remixes Samples:  Nakataka.net…